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Well, you could certainly rebarrel it, but the bolt face is different between 7.62X54r and .30-06. I'm not sure just how it would work.Because there is no marking on the barrel it is possible that rifle was rebarreled to 30-06.
The mosin nagants of the 1917 production run have a lot of writeups in my search engine. Apparently the Russian Revolution disolved the buyers so there was no Russia left to buy them. Russia ceased to exist after 1917 so there sat a bunch of rifles all dressed up and no place to go. There is mention of some of the 1917 mosin nagants having been rebarreled to 39-06. The owner of the example here in the foto says there are no markings on the barrel whuch intrigues me because I have Remington barrels even older than 1917 that are clearly marked. Thus I wondered if his example was among those 1917s that got rebarreled to 30-06.Well, you could certainly rebarrel it, but the bolt face is different between 7.62X54r and .30-06. I'm not sure just how it would work.
That could very well be. I did some further research and found out that there were indeed, many rebarred to .30-06. I don't have any Russian 7.62 around to compare to a US service cartridge, so I can't say for certain just how the bolt would extract/eject a shell. Easy enough to try and chamber a dummy round and see if it fits.The mosin nagants of the 1917 production run have a lot of writeups in my search engine. Apparently the Russian Revolution disolved the buyers so there was no Russia left to buy them. Russia ceased to exist after 1917 so there sat a bunch of rifles all dressed up and no place to go. There is mention of some of the 1917 mosin nagants having been rebarreled to 39-06. The owner of the example here in the foto says there are no markings on the barrel whuch intrigues me because I have Remington barrels even older than 1917 that are clearly marked. Thus I wondered if his example was among those 1917s that got rebarreled to 30-06.